tasty food. I'm from NY so the bar is set high. I always order take-out but there's plenty of seating.

I'm a visitor from St. Louis, MO. One of my goals while in California was to eat local food from restaurants I won't find at home. Today, I just happened to have a craving for Chinese. I looked up places near The Venice Beach Boardwalk and found the godsend Wacky Wok! I must say, of all the places I've eaten while in California, this was the absolute best! The food was so amazing that after I was completely stuffed, I ordered a second serving for the next day (seeing as I'll be in San Diego). And the price is totally reasonable! If you're craving any good food, visit these guys! They have carry out options AND dine-in options! They staff is amazing and the manager was the nicest guy I've ever met!! For any other frequent travelers, they promote themselves as New York style Chinese food. As a person who has visited and eaten Chinese food in New York, Wacky Wok is MUCH better! read more

Have gone here often and the food is decent. But the service is piss poor. And it keeps getting worse. Even on take out.

I've been going to this place infrequently for 10+ years. I don't know if the ownership has changed but I brought home some food last week and it was just awful. OK - I'm a bore and felt like some Egg Foo Yung. How about hockey puck with canned brown gravy? The shrimp in lobster sauce wasn't any better. Life in the Marina hasn't been the same since Hop Li closed. read more

Best Chinese food delivery restaurant in Venice! I love the garlic chicken with green beans and the hot and sour soup is amazing. It all feels healthy too, I don't get that full sick feeling after eating a lot. The only negative thing is that their prices have gone up several times in the 3 years I have ordered from here. read more

Not bad Chinese food. Just not worth the eleven bucks minimum you'll pay per entree. Especially when your view is of the liquor store next door read more

Ew. ew. EW! We live two blocks away and ordered delivery. It took an hour. We bought two a la carte items, a soup and an order of dumplings. FIFTY DOLLARS (with tip). Are you kidding? Well, honestly I wouldn't complain had the food been good. It wasn't even close to good. It was TOTALLY FLAVORLESS and swimming in greasy oil, even the rice was gross. Um, how do you mess up rice? Its rice. Anyways, I will never order again. I don't know what these people are smoking that left the good reviews but it must be good. read more

This is my favorite chinese food place for lunch on the west side. The lunch specials are good, inexpensive, and made to order. Everything is fresh, beautifully presented, and somewhat delicate...not overpowering like some chinese food. The vegetables are crisp, and the flavors impressively distinct. Just love it. Dinners are a different thing, I'd go for lunch only. read more

One of the better Chinese places I have ever eaten ate. From the atmosphere to the quick service I felt very relaxed and excited to eat. The good was amazing and the orange chicken was great. The shrimp fried rice was great too. read more

Our food was delivered punctually and that is the best we can say. We ordered a selection of dim sum. Four dishes and each was equally awful. We ate some of it because we were so hungry. The rest went in the bin. The pork ribs were undercooked, dry and tasteless. The mushroom and lettuce wrap tasted fermented, inedible. The rest of the meal was way below standard. Except for one, the sauces were not fresh, they came in packets. We will not order food from this place again. read more

I feel that it used to be better but it is still excellent carry out food in Venice. Love Hunan Chicken and cold peanut noodle salad.

If you want some NYC style Chinese food this is the place to be at without a doubt !!!

The large number menu choices and the enthusiasm of the lunch customers with their food was a delight to see since I am still mourning the closing of Szcheuan. The food is well prepared and good tasting. The name is silly but the food is top rate. read more

First time here by reference of a friend. Average quality affordable food, large portions, nice and friendly service. The beef was tender and seasoned well. Will definitely come back again to try other dishes. read more

We gave Wacky Wok another chance and I must say that we were thoroughly impressed with the customer service. Make sure that you are very specific when you order and make sure that you understand the ingredients on the menu. We tried the lettuce wraps for the first time and they were excellent. They even prepared them with white meat for me after I had asked if they came with white meat and I was told they were and they gave me dark meat instead (the menu doesn't specify what type of meat they use for this dish). I really appreciate that they went the extra mile to make me happy. The NY Style egg roles were great as well. read more

Ordered hot and sour soup, tofu w/veggies, salt and pepper wings. Really truly awful food. Barely Chinese, much less New York Style. The wings were just edible. Soup bore little resemblance to the real thing, lacking most of the usual ingredients, including sour. Tofu veg, awful taste, a little container of really nothing. I love Chinese food and will forgive a lot. But not this. read more

Okay....this is absolutely the worst kind of crap - from the quality of the cuisine, down to the packaging of the food. One dish was burnt and almost inedible; things like dumplings were stuck together in one big ball. Management does not care that the people who package the food don't care. There also can be delivery problems. I give up. California Wok Express was a very, very good local venue, but now it's closed. We have no decent Chinese food...Terrible food, high prices, small portions...Bad combo, I'd say.... read more

This is a great value. It's not going to make the romantic date thing work, but if you want great food at a value price in Venice Beach, check this out. Service was friendly enough, might even have been friendlier if I spoke Chineese. They place seemed busy with takeout orders but still our food came in about 5 minutes. We ordered three dishes and each was delivered as it became availalble ensuring that it was as hot and fresh as possible. The ingredients too (vegetables) were of superior quality. I suspect its because of the volume of business they do out of a small space. No room to store anything. It has to be fresh daily and maybe twice daily. read more

Fantastic food. I'm from London and specifically sought this place out because I have good memories of dining here last time I visited LA 15 years ago. The food tasted just as good if not better than last time. The proprietor was friendly and told me they still have same chef as last time and he's training new ones up. Ron also visited with me. He's a well travelled family mascot, appreciated by my kids and 22,000 others. Check out his adventures by searching Ronovision on youtube. I haven't put his Wacky Wok adventure on yet but I'd like to when I get time. read more

Delicious pork fried rice. I also like the veggie soup and spring rolls. Very tasty chinese food and decent prices. Had it delivered several times to Marina, fast and hot! read more

Great! Finally A decent Chinese food place near me! Have been here a few times now and the food speaks for itself. Portions are pretty big so they can be split with someone. Go and try it! read more

Food is better when you eat in the restaurant then when you take it to go. Makes me question why? No soup with lunch special to go. Why not? Doesn't make sense. First few times I liked the food. Last several times not so much. Too bad. You might get lucky then again perhaps not. read more

I've had better Chinese food at sit-down restaurants, but for fast Chinese food, this is the best place I've found in LA. I used to go here all the time. Good flavor, quick, good portions, and very nice staff and owner. read more

Such a shame - going down after several years! My interest is selfish because it was nice to have a local Chinese Restaurant serving decent food. Either a change in kitchen or absentee management --------------. No rice was packed with take out order, garlic green beans not crisp a the have been orange chicken hard. A B from the health department and a B from me too. read more

I was actually very ImPressed. Being a New Yorker and living here for 13 years, I haven't found one place that was actually decent. The first thing I trued was the wonton soup and it was AMAZING! I recommend the egg roll, beef with broccoli and orange chicken. We will def be ordering from them again! read more

Amazing Orange Beef...legitimately amazing. The shrimp and walnut is also amazing. I was not a huge fan of the chicken chow mein but it was decent enough. I only order this delivery and it always comes very quick!! You can't beat this after a long day at work. Yum! read more

I've ordered food from Wacky Wok three times. The first time was good. The second time was not as good and last night's delivery was terrible. The shrimp fried rice seemed several days old and any kind of flavor was completely muted by the lack of freshness. The orange chicken seemed old and re-fried so many times that the meat was stringy and inedible. Totally disgusting. The steamed shrimp dumplings' sauce had an orange color, not found in nature, that was gloppy and terrible. The owner should be ashamed to allow food like this to be served to customers rather than to a trash dumpster. I was so mad throwing away money on garbage like this. Never again. I can make better Chinese food than this and I'm not even Chinese. Should be called WACK Wok with that WACK excuse for food. read more

been coming here for years. always friendly staff and food is delicious. love the ny eggrolls. price is right too.

We're NYers living in Venice. We love Chinese food and used to order from Wacky Wok (as the closest thing to NY Chinese) but gave up several months ago after they messed up one order too many. Decided to try it again tonight and the sad news is that there's been no improvement. The tofu with vegetables came without any tofu. The wonton soup is so salty that we'll be drinking water all evening. The moo-shu pork is not tasty and is also over-salted or has been soaking in tenderizer all day. Even the fortune cookies are soggy. The bag leaked all over the place and spilled on the floor. I'm totally over it. read more

This place was bland n a waste of money. They serve dim sum but use Sriracha for spicy sauce. Sorry that's wrong. And, mustard packet tasted like Frenchs. I would of better to go by the place next to 7/11 on Washington n Lincoln. read more

For inexpensive, dive-y chinese, you can't beat this place. Their tofu dishes are well-spiced and lovely textured, and their chicken dishes, I'm told, equally devourable. They do a great green bean, and their spring rolls are tasty. My daughter and her friends love the noodle dishes, and like most Chinese places kids are welcome. We've been eating here for years, and although it's not always the same chef, the food is always good. "Off the menu" Kung pao tofu is a delight, spicy or not. The atmosphere is well, it's not where you'r take a first date. Maybe not even a second date. But you will go with your family if you're on a budget, or with friends, and they do deliver. Also, they are right next to one of the least expensive gas stations in the area, reason enough to go. Now I've blown it. It'll be busy all the time, I suppose. Oh well, the people who work there are very nice and deserve the recognition. read more

Fresh and tasty with great prices. Really high quality ingredients that don't come with a sacrifice to the tastebuds

I was hoping to find a decent chinese restaurant near me and decided to give this Venice location a try. I ordered the Wacky Wok Chicken and Vegetable Fried Rice to go. The chicken was mostly dark meat which I dislike and the sauce tasted bland. The fried rice had the occasional pea pod and corn but was sparse on vegetables. I think it was expensive for the food I received. read more

I would have given this place one star, were it not for the fact that I've only been there once! Some people say that they give a place only one chance, but I know several places, that were you to pick the one bad item or catagory, you'd say that place was awful, not knowing that the rest of their stuff was good or even great. Food here was mediocre, but I must say that the pork bao dough was some of the best (now if they'd only put in more filling...) Food was brought out- and that was about it. I finaly got the attention of the waiter for refills- he kept moving while I spoke. And I'm speaking of a time period of about an hour. We were the only diners in the place, and three of them would sometimes meet together in a knot to discuss things, so they're not understaffed. What is this epidemic of poor service? Okay, don't give me cordial service, but at least come by to ask, take away dishes, let us know you're aware of us! read more

I never write reviews but I had to on this one. Ordered from here for the first time last night. It was terrible. Mystery meat? I couldn't tell - most of the meat in the Mongolian beef we couldn't even chew. I only gave 1 star because I can't figure out how to take it off and give it 0 stars! We ordered the Wacky Wok chicken, steamed pork dumplings and the bbq pork as well. Couldn't eat any of it. Terrible. read more

My favorite neighborhood Chinese. Can't go wrong with the spring rolls, egg rolls, hot and sour soup, chicken in garlic sauce, beef and broccoli. Always a quick delivery. read more

The food is great! I always order delivery. They get the orders right and deliver promptly. After trying a few other places, this is the only Chinese restaurant in this area that I order from. read more

Quality has declined markedly over the past few years. Way too much sodium; white sauced based dishes seem heavy on the cornstarch; over cooked veggies. Hired Help behind the register still never say "thank you" for your business. We found a new Chinese restaurant in Mar Vista instead- really great and inventive Chinese cuisine. read more

I was angry before because I couldn't get hold of a manager. Well, the owner called me himself and offered to make things right. I've updated this review to reflect my appreciation for his time and effort. read more

I went here because I was mega hungover and wanted some really bad-for-you noodle chinese food dish. The food was decent really at best. I had a vegetable noodle dish and added tofu. Turned out to be eight bones after adding the tofu. The tofu and the veggies were good but the sauce was kind of overkill. They have a super good lunch special that happens every day but you have to dine in because they won't let you take the special to-go. It's not really a spot you wanna sit at eat at in my opinion. I'll probably come here again if I have some sort of hangover munchies again -- otherwise I'll spend my money elsewhere. read more